for this progress, the agency and its staff, particularly , blackwell, amy neches, and kelly cahn deserve a huge amount of credit. [applause] finally, a couple of days ago, the agency commission voted to approve the first phase of the design approval process for the two million square foot headquarters campus for salesforce.com. this will be the largest project built for the city sent embarcadero center, also a redevelopment project. we will hear more about this from one of our speakers, and it is an interesting question why salesforce elected to make this enormous investment in land, some $279 million, and construction for an open campus in the city when most of the technology and biotech giants have chosen to build closed campuses in suburban communities. the founder and ceo put it succinctly. he said, the talent is in the city. something to keep in mind. twitter, by the way, seems to have agreed, having decided to take on the challenge of rehabilitating the merchandised market. with the gray hulk of the merchandise mart on its way to a new life, that should kickstart longstanding effor